Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

As demand for cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals surges, governments and companies are eyeing the deep ocean floor. Scientists warn of irreversible damage to deep-sea biodiversity, while ...

It will mark the world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare earth mud from a depth of around 6,000m on to a vessel. Read ...

With baseline data tracking 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules at a depth of 4,280 metres, the study represents the largest ever conducted.

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining operation churned through the seabed. Once the machinery arrived, biodiversity ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management extended the public comment period for its deep-sea mining proposal near the Mariana ...

Local group Prutehi Guåhan will host another comment workshop over planned deep-sea mining in the Marianas. The group is ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the ...

Experts noted that the deep ocean is one of the planet’s most mysterious, fragile, and least-studied ecosystems, containing ...

Seems that the federal government always has plans for our islands with schemes than can best summarized as modern ...